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\nIsraeli forces have shot dead Al Jazeera\u2019s journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
\nShe was hit by a live bullet on Wednesday while covering Israeli raids in the city of Jenin and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, according to the ministry and Al Jazeera journalists. Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest when she was killed. She was declared dead at the hospital, the ministry said.
\nAnother Al Jazeera journalist, Ali Samoudi, was also wounded after being shot in the back. He is now in a stable condition, and said that there were no Palestinian fighters present when the journalists were shot, directly disputing an Israeli statement that referenced the possibility.
\n\u201cWe were going to film the Israeli army operation and suddenly they shot us without asking us to leave or stop filming,\u201d said Samoudi. \u201cThe first bullet hit me and the second bullet hit Shireen \u2026 there was no Palestinian military resistance at all at the scene.\u201d
\nShatha Hanaysha, a Palestinian journalist who was present next to Abu Akleh when she was shot, also told Al Jazeera that there had been no confrontations between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli army, and said that the group of journalists had been targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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